{"id":175055,"date":"2026-01-06T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/fda-relaxes-oversight-of-ai-enabled-devices-and-wearables\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:55:09","slug":"fda-relaxes-oversight-of-ai-enabled-devices-and-wearables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/fda-relaxes-oversight-of-ai-enabled-devices-and-wearables\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA relaxes oversight of AI-enabled devices and wearables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/06\/fda-pulls-back-oversight-ai-enabled-devices-wearables\/\">FDA relaxes oversight of AI-enabled devices and wearables<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/06\/fda-pulls-back-oversight-ai-enabled-devices-wearables\/\">https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/06\/fda-pulls-back-oversight-ai-enabled-devices-wearables\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-06 15:51:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.statnews.com\">www.statnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>FDA Regulation Easement<\/strong>: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced plans to ease regulation of digital health products, following on from the Trump administration&#8217;s deregulatory policies for artificial intelligence (AI).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Silicon Valley Influence<\/strong>: FDA Commissioner Marty Makary emphasized the need for the agency to adapt regulations \u201cat Silicon Valley speed\u201d to accommodate rapid technological advancements.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Clinical Decision Support Software<\/strong>: The FDA will alter its approach to clinical decision support software, particularly AI-enabled tools, allowing many products to enter the market without initial FDA review, provided they meet other established criteria.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Promoting Investment and Innovation<\/strong>: One of the agency\u2019s priorities mentioned is fostering a regulatory environment conducive to investment and innovation in health tech.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contact Information<\/strong>: Reporters for STAT, including Lizzy Lawrence, Mario Aguilar, and Katie Palmer, provide contact details via Signal for further questions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FDA relaxes oversight of AI-enabled devices and wearables https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/01\/06\/fda-pulls-back-oversight-ai-enabled-devices-wearables\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-06 15:51:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2244850640-1024x576.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-175055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175057,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175055\/revisions\/175057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}